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English Teaching Resources

Writing Skills Teaching Resources

A forest poster: A hand
drawn set of trees with labels. Enlarge and photocopy onto green
paper, then as students study or write persuasive texts they can
affix examples on post-it notes to make a great display.

Argue article 1: A task,
a selection of ways to begin and advice for students.

Commentary starter: A
presentation to introduce the variety of registers used in
sports commentaries.

Describe a nightmare world:
A writing sheet including the learning objective. Can be used
with the 'Lesson plan describe' resource.

Describe sentence
starters: A variety of ways to begin a descriptive piece on 'A
nightmare world'. Can be used with the 'Lesson plan describe'
resource.

Describing: A lesson
plan and writing frame for a descriptive task.

Different writing
styles: A series of activities and a full writing task to
explore PALL.

Emotive Language 1: A
definition and activities for students to work through.

Emotive Language 2: Six
newspaper headlines for students to write an article about using
as much emotive language as possible.

Exploring Sentences:
A number of activities to show students they need to do more
than identify sentence types. Particularly focused on level 5
writing.

Exploring the writing
tasks: Information about the writing triplets, what's been in
the paper in the past and some tasks for students to complete.

Kafka describe: An
extract from 'Metamorphosis' with an activity and learning
objective. Can be used with the 'Lesson plan describe' resource. A similar activity is available in the 'Inform, explain,
describe' directory in KS4.

Lesson plan describe:
Detailed lesson plan about writing the opening paragraph to an
effective piece of descriptive writing. The resources are all in
the Writing Skills directory.

PEEE Poster: A hand
drawn set of letters to remind students to PEEE in their work.
Can be used as a poster in the classroom (enlarge to A3) or hand
out to students for them to write their ideas on and then
display ... beautiful!

Senses template: Useful
for any descriptive writing starter, it reminds students to
consider all five senses. Can be used with the 'Lesson plan
describe' resource above.

Speech writing 1:
Students create a glossary of rhetorical devices and then see
how many they can find in a selection of famous speeches.

Theatre advert: A sample
short writing task about an advert for a theatre club.

Theatre writing task: A
persuasive letter.

Using language 1: A
slide show to guide students step by step through the PEA
process.

Magazine article: A
sample short writing task about an article in a travel magazine.

School task: A long
writing task on a feature for a guidebook to school.

Poaching article: A
cloze exercise with a variety of emotive words to choose from.
Includes hints on which word might be best.